Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism

by Jonathan Arac (Editor), Harriet Ritvo (Editor)

Overview

In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812282085
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1991
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.07(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jonathan Arac is Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Harriet Ritvo is Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo 1

The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's History / Bruce Greenfield 12

The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 / Nancy Vogeley 37

Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism / Marlon B. Ross 56

Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas in Context / Mark Kipperman 86

The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society / Sue Zemka 102

For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son / Jeff Nunokawa 138

Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy in Jane Eyre / Susan Meyer 159

Ahab's Manifest Destiny / Wai-chee Dimock 184

Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth-Century Others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'Education sentimentale / Lisa Lowe 213

Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France / Loren Kruger 243

Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism / Christ Bongie 268

Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry / James F. Knapp 286

Contributors 303

Index 305

Editorial Reviews

In contrast to Foucault's micropolitics, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many major developments in 19th-century writing. The contributors to this volume range over the whole 19th century and much of the world in exploring the relations between politics and culture that defined the era of colonization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Well-edited, responsible, theoretically sophisticated, and politically engaged."—Nancy Paxton, Northern Arizona University

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